1917-1991, soviet union

An analysis of the modern Soviet Union under Gorbachev, discussing his mandate for radical reform and the implications for Soviet citizens and for the West.

A companion volume to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, chronicling the experiences of more than two thousand Polish Jewish refugees who escaped to safety only months before the Nazis began their campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

Examines the history, geography, and society of the Soviet Union.

Presents the numbers one through ten in Russian, using each number to introduce concepts about the Soviet Union and Russian culture.

Presents an English translation of Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, " telling of a labor camp inmate's struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of Communist oppression.

This book describes the Cuban missile crisis, explaining the thoughts and reactions of President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Describes the resultant physical and mental depletion after a student in St. Petersburg murders an old woman, a money lender, and her sister.

Describes the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, and argues that what most people think about the occupation is wrong, explaining how the Russian conscripts suffered badly from mismanagement and strategic errors, but they were never defeated on the battlefield, and withdrew in good order.

An account of the "Doctor's Plot" that persecuted Jews in the Soviet Union.

Conversations with Soviet citizens in three different regions on the topics of change in personal freedom and economic life style.